{"id":658208,"date":"2026-02-02T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658208"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:58:04","slug":"seven-high-speed-rail-corridors-on-cards-railways-gets-%e2%82%b92-77-lakh-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/seven-high-speed-rail-corridors-on-cards-railways-gets-%e2%82%b92-77-lakh-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven high-speed rail corridors on cards, Railways gets \u20b92.77 lakh crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday proposed seven high-speed rail corridors and allocated \u20b92,77,830 crore to the railways ministry for capital expenditure in 2026-27, an 10.25% increase from \u20b92,52,000 crore in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the Union Budget, Sitharaman said, \u201cIn order to promote environmentally sustainable passenger systems, we will develop seven high-speed rail corridors between cities as growth connectors..Mumbai to Pune, Pune to Hyderabad, Hyderabad to Bengaluru, Hyderabad to Chennai, Chennai to Bengaluru, Delhi to Varanasi, Varanasi to Siliguri.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday proposed seven high-speed rail corridors and allocated \u20b92,77,830 crore to the railways ministry for capital expenditure in 2026-27, an 10.25% increase from \u20b92,52,000 crore in 2025-26. Presenting the Union Budget, Sitharaman said, \u201cIn order to promote environmentally sustainable passenger systems, we will develop seven high-speed rail corridors between cities as growth connectors..Mumbai to Pune, Pune to Hyderabad, Hyderabad to Bengaluru, Hyderabad to Chennai, Chennai to Bengaluru, Delhi to Varanasi, Varanasi to Siliguri.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}